2 Kings 17:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.”
2 Kings 17:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
2 Kings 17:8 in 6 Bible Translations
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2 Kings 17:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.”
2 Kings 17:8 — World English Bible
2 Kings 17:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made. ”
2 Kings 17:8 — American Standard Version
2 Kings 17:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made;”
2 Kings 17:8 — Young's Literal Translation
2 Kings 17:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. ”
2 Kings 17:8 — Darby Translation
2 Kings 17:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed,”
2 Kings 17:8 — Geneva Bible
2 Kings 17:8 in Context — 2 Kings 17
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
What Does 2 Kings 17:8 Mean?
2 Kings 17:8 is a verse from the Book of 2 Kings, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 2 Kings chapter 17. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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